InfoSphere® MDM can
be configured to use IBM® InfoSphere QualityStage®'s standardization
and matching capabilities.
InfoSphere QualityStage is a comprehensive development
environment for building applications to re-engineer data. It provides
a set of integrated modules for accomplishing data re-engineering
tasks such as Conditioning (Standardization), Matching, Searching,
and others. InfoSphere MDM can
be configured to use InfoSphere QualityStage's standardization
and matching capabilities.
For more details about using InfoSphere QualityStage for party matching,
see Suspected duplicate identification using QualityStage.
For more details about using InfoSphere QualityStage for standardization,
see Using InfoSphere QualityStage for standardization.
Definitions, acronyms, and abbreviations used when
discussing QualityStage integration
The
following terms are used when discussing QualityStage integration:
- QualityStage Designer
- Provides a client interface for defining and customizing data
re-engineering jobs. It runs on a Windows workstation.
- QualityStage Server
- Accesses the source data, defined by the Designer, and processes
them into the target re-engineered data. It can run on Windows or UNIX.
- QualityStage Stage
- A data re-engineering operation such as Investigate, Standardize,
Match, and Survive. InfoSphere MDM only
uses Standardize and Match stages. Clients can use out of the box
stages or create their own stage and attach available rule sets to
them.
- QualityStage Job
- Incorporates a number of data re-engineering stages. QualityStage uses jobs to process data,
creating various intermediate and final stages of re-engineered data.
The processing criteria are determined by rule sets that you specify
for a job. Once Jobs are built using Designer they need to be deployed
on the QualityStage server.
- WebSphere® Information
Services Director (WISD)
- Acts as a layer between the IBM InfoSphere Information Server
client and the InfoSphere Information
Server server. It provides a unified mechanism for publishing and
managing shared Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) services across
data quality, data transformation, and federation functions, which
allows information specialists to easily deploy services for any information
integration task and consistently manage them. WISD enables developers
to take data integration logic built using InfoSphere Information Server and publish
it as an "always on" service.
InfoSphere MDM distribution
components for QualityStage
The
following components are required for integrating QualityStage with
InfoSphere MDM.
You can find these components under
\<MDM_INSTALL_DIR>\Integrations\QualityStage:
Table 1. Distribution componentsComponent Name |
Description |
MDMQS.dsx |
DataStage/QualityStage job export. Contains
source code to be imported into your environment through the DataStage/QualityStage
Designer Client. |
MDMQS_ISDProject.xml (for the RIM interface) |
WISD project export. Contains service definitions
to be imported into your environment through the InfoSphere Information Server Console. |
MDMQSWS.xml (for the Web Services interface) |
WISD project export. Contains service definitions
to be imported into your environment through the InfoSphere Information Server Console. |
MDMQSJP.dsx |
DataStage/QualityStage job export for standardization
of Japanese names and addresses. |
MDMQSJP_ISDProject.xml (for the RIM interface) |
WISD project export of MDMQSJP. Contains service
definitions to be imported into your environment through the InfoSphere Information Server
Console. |
*.csv |
Test data used to test the batch version of
the jobs. |
Where to find more QualityStage information
For
more information, see the IBM InfoSphere Information Server
– Bookshelf documentation, including:
- IBM InfoSphere QualityStage User's Guide
- IBM InfoSphere Information Server Planning,
Installation, and Configuration Guide